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TWO  MEMORIAL  ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED   ON  FOX- 

BORO  COMMON 


REV.  WILLIAM  E.  BARTON,  D.  D. 

IN  MEMORY  OF  PRESIDENT  HARDING 

AUGUST  10.  1923 

REV.  ISAAC  SMITH.  A.  M. 
IN  MEMORY  OF  PRESIDENT  LINCOLN 
APRIL  19.  1865 


THE  PRINT  SHOP  INCORPORATED 

FOXBORO,  MASSACHUSETTS 

1923 


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FOXBORO  HONORS  HARDING 
(From  the  Foxboro  Reporter,  August  17,  1923.) 

LAST  Friday  afternoon  a  large  audience  assembled  on  the  Common  to 
■^  honor  our  dead  President,  Warren  Gamaliel  Harding.  The  affair  was 
arranged  by  the  Selectmen,  L.  W.  Foster  Post  and  others.  Ex-Selectman 
Kimball  was  chairman  of  the  committee  of  arrangements  and  the  Boy 
Scouts  under  Scoutmaster  Foulds  assisted  in  many  ways.  Dr.  Thomas 
furnished  transportation  for  the  members  of  the  Grand  Army  Post  and 
also  loaned  the  use  of  the  State  Hospital  truck  to  transport  the  seats 
which  were  placed  near  the  bandstand.  Ex-Representative  George  R. 
Ellis  presided  and  announced  the  program.  The  Laurence  W.  Foster  Post 
American  Legion  marched  from  their  quarters  to  the  grounds.  Com- 
rades Bourne,  Sands,  Williams,  Pierce,  and  Wheeler  of  the  E.  P.  Car- 
penter Post,  G.  A.  R.  were  present  in  their  uniforms.  A  quartette  com- 
posed of  Harry  C.  J.  Rost,  Walter  F.  Bosworth,  Hobart  A.  Smart  and 
Albert  E.  Bence  assisted  in  the  musical  part  of  the  program.  The  pro- 
gram as  announced  in  last  week's  issue  of  the  Reporter  was  carried  out 
except  that  Rev.  Michael  A.  Butler  was  unable  to  be  present  to  pro- 
nounce the  benediction,  having  been  called  to  another  observance.  Rev. 
William  H.  Thurston  of  Mechanic  street  was  substituted  for  that  service. 

The  committee  was  very  fortunate  in  securing  Rev.  William  E.  Barton 
to  deliver  the  address  of  the  day.  Dr.  Barton  is  the  successful  pastor  of 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  influential  churches  in  the  United  States,  and 
moderator  of  the  National  Council  of  Congregational  churches.  He  is 
the  author  of  "Parables  of  Safed  the  Sage".  His  son,  Bruce  Barton,  is 
the  celebrated  essayist  of  the  American  magazine  and  other  publications. 

During  his  remarks  he  stated  that  the  most  prized  momento  of  Lin- 
coln, by  his  followers,  is  the  address  delivered  in  the  Town  Hall  of  Fox- 
boro on  April  19,  1865,  simultaneously  with  the  funeral  of  President 
Lincoln,  by  Rev.  Isaac  Smith.  Among  the  audience  which  listened  to 
Dr.  Barton  was  seated  Mrs.  Byron  H.  Waterman,  who  was  present  and 
heard  Dr.  Smith  in  1865.  After  the  exercises,  Mrs.  Waterman  was  intro- 
duced to  Dr.  Barton  who  congratulated  her  on  having  been  privileged 
to  hear  Dr.  Smith  and  also  on  her  continued  good  health  and  well  pre- 
served faculties. 

Business  was  suspended  in  the  banks,  stores  and  post-office  and  the 
wheels  of  industry  paused  in  the  factories. 


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F  THE  FUNERAL  I        I  OF 

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MUtOf]    and    Bou:  f;lcri 

I       Lad   Kindh  Quartet 

ayer  Kcv.    W.    Ellsworth   LawtOd 

4.   "Nearer  My  God  u 

Quartet  and  Congregation 

I     Address  Krv     W     I     Barton.   D.   D. 

6.   Benediction  Krv    Father   Michael  A.   Butler 

•:;.'r  PWa|     Squad 

ps  Milton    and   Bourne,   Bugleri 


ADDRESS  BY  REV.  WILLIAM  E.  BARTON,  D.  D. 


THE  flags  of  all  nations,  drooping  at  half-mast,  salute  the 
lowered  and  shrouded  emblem  of  the  Republic.  A  widow's 
sob  at  Marion,  Ohio,  is  answered  by  bugles  sounding  "Taps" 
all  around  the  world.  The  sorrow  of  this  gathering  finds  its 
answering  sorrow  in  ten  thousand  assemblies  held  in  every  por- 
tion of  our  country,  and  far  beyond  the  sea.  We  are  surround- 
ed by  a  great  cloud  of  witnesses.  Our  songs,  our  prayers,  our 
words  of  sympathy,  are  uttered  with  the  knowledge  that  pray- 
ers and  songs  and  words  like  ours  are  finding  expression  at  this 
hour  all  the  way  from  Plymouth  Rock  to  Puget  Sound,  all  the 
way  from  Alaska  to  Panama,  yes,  all  the  way  east  and  all  the 
way  west  until  they  meet  the  echoes  of  like  expressions  of  sor- 
row and  comfort,  as  far  as  the  human  voice  can  anywhere  be 
heard. 

The  event  which  brings  us  together,  and  the  character  of 
this  service,  find  their  precedent  in  a  service  held  on  April  19, 
1865.  At  the  hour  of  the  funeral  of  President  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, a  service  was  held  in  the  Town  Hall,  held  as  this  is  held, 
under  the  auspices  of  the  officials  of  the  Town,  with  all  religious 
and  civic  bodies  uniting,  and  attended  by  the  people  of  Foxboro, 
without  regard  to  sect  or  class.  The  address  delivered  on  that 
day  by  Rev.  Isaac  Smith  was  printed,  and  is  one  of  the  most 
prized  of  pamphlets  relating  to  Abraham  Lincoln.  Today,  as  on 
that  day,  Foxboro  expresses  her  patriotism  and  her  esteem  for 
a  good  and  wise  and  worthy  President,  suddenly  called  from  us 
by  death. 

It  is  in  keeping  with  the  character  and  history  of  Foxboro 
that  she  should  assemble  today  to  pay  her  tribute  of  affection 
and  respect  to  our  dead  President.    Foxboro  is  a  patriotic  town. 

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io  mmn  r  hakding 

wii  born   in   :  and 

baptized  at  the  sh  It   Lt  said    that   th 

cannon  cast   for   the  Colonial  army  wat  made  by  a  resident  of 

Hall  give  names  o: 
who   fought    in   th  8   who 

.,ht  in  the  war 
.it    kept 

:  ead  on 
our  majestic  memorial  rock  m  the  names  of  the  men  of  Fox- 
bo:  ht  agar  -d  and  oppress:  at  con?: 

and   pa:  k   in   this 

a  little  company  of  venerable  men  who  wore  the  blue  in  1861-5. 
and  a  fine,  stalwart  body  of  men  in  kahki.  members  of  the 
American  La 

Only   an   event   of    nat  ce   could   have   brought 

together  such  a  gathering  as  this.     No  hall  or  church  in   I 
boro  could  have  afforded  room  for  our  assembly      We  are  here 

hers  such  that  only  the  Common  can  furnish  us  an  .• 
quate  floor,  a:  is  no  roof  m   Koxhoro  that  could  o 

this  gathering  save  the  blue  sky  itself 

\g   at   once  our   companionship 
■  \   all   true   Americans    .  lay   m   proud  sorrow, 

and  with   t  no.  in   I  vears.  <  .    call  eithe: 

war  or  peace  have  been  true  to  the  Bpfa  xboro. 

When,  in  1865.  tbfl  s  held  h  already  refer- 

ence has  be'  I  had  fallen  by  the  hand  of  an 

assassin       It   was  an  occasion  of  horror  as  well  as  of  sort 
and  that  horr«  the  death 

of  P  ts  Garfield  am:  hank  God.  that  ho: 

does  not  enter  into  this  present  M  Warren  G.  Harding's 

death   is   shocking   in   its   sudden   occ.  is   not    the 

res  iman  hate  and  at  least,  let   us 

profou:  Ours   is   not    an   incurable   sorrow:   our 

n   have    in    them   n  rs->      tl  th    has   no  sting   of 

I 

I  eletnei  nan  passio:  early  absent 

mi  than  from  i  si  of  a  President  dead 

!  Garfield  and  M  e  all  assassins M 

m 


BY  WILLIAM  E.  BARTON.  D.  D. 

Harrison  and  Taylor  both  died  so  soon  after  their  inauguration 
that  charges  of  foul  play  were  freely  made,  charges  for  which 
there  was  no  real  foundation.  Harrison  and  Taylor  died  so 
soon  after  their  election  that  the  heat  of  the  two  campaigns 
had  not  died  down;  Harding  dies  in  no  such  time  of  divided 
loyalties.    The  heart  of  America  is  one  heart  today. 

And  yet  we  cannot  forget  that  even  President  Harding  was 
subject  to  severe  and  bitter  criticism.  America  has  never  had 
a  great  President  who  did  not  suffer  cruel  and  unmerited  cen- 
sure. Washington,  Lincoln,  McKinley,  Roosevelt,  all  were 
slandered.  It  is  good  to  know  that  at  the  moment  of  his  sud- 
den death,  Mr.  Harding  was  listening  to  the  reading  of  an  ar- 
ticle which  spoke  of  him  in  terms  of  discriminating  praise.  I 
hope  he  knows  that  all  America  and  the  world  echo  those  sen- 
timents of  praise  and  approval  today.  It  is  beautiful  to  see 
the  unanimity  with  which  the  American  press  today  pays  trib- 
ute to  the  genuine  goodness  of  Warren  G.  Harding.  We  could 
have  wished  that  he  had  heard  more  of  this  while  he  was  living. 

We  do  not  honor  our  great  men  as  we  ought  to  honor  them. 
We  do  not  discover  their  greatness  as  we  ought  until  they  are 
gone  from  us.  No  other  nation  makes  so  much  as  America 
makes  of  symbolism  in  intimate  things.  We  have  a  most  elab- 
orate etiquette  of  the  flag;  we  make  a  religion  of  reverence  for 
our  national  anthem;  but  we  are  too  much  afraid  of  honoring 
our  men.  Neither  a  strain  of  music  nor  a  piece  of  striped 
bunting  can  ever  mean  much  except  as  they  represent  qualities 
that  are  honorable  in  our  manhood. 

Can  we  call  Warren  G.  Harding  a  great  man?  What  con- 
stitutes a  great  man?  How  many  presidents  of  the  United 
States  would  you  call  great?  I  have  known,  not  intimately  to 
be  sure,  the  last  seven  or  eight  Presidents;  which  of  them 
would  you  call  great?  Was  Benjamin  Harrison  a  great  man? 
Or  Grover  Cleveland?  Or  William  McKinley?  Or  Theodore 
Roosevelt?  Or  William  Howard  Taft?  Or  Woodrow  Wilson? 
I  held  them  all  in  respect;  but  of  which  of  them  could  it  be 
said  that  he  was  truly  great?  But  if  Presidents  are  not  great, 
who  are  our  great  men?  Are  bank  presidents  or  presidents  of 
railroads  great  men?    Not  many  of  them  seem  so  to  me.    How 

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TRIBUTE  TO  PRESIDENT  HA 

ma  c  generals  of  the  Civil  War  1  at  men?     How 

many  generals  of  A     rid  W^  f;t**t?      1   will  not 

htt  >f    them,    but    those    that    I    h.  :iot    ap- 

ir*bly   greater   than   other   men,  and   the 
ones   moat    nearly    great    have    been    the    least    inclined    to   as- 

And    vet.    wc    will   agree,   America    has   had.   and   some* 
muit  still  h.i  it  men.     Wherr 

D  wai  a  great  man.     We  shall  all  agree  about  that.    But 

I  11  an  interesting  fact.     I  have  been  reading  several  of  the 

sermons  dc  just   a:  coin's   death,   and   of    the   ad- 

ses  dc.  :iguishc  rs  at   the   time  of   his 

funeral,  and  not  all  of  these  orators,  not  many  of  them,  indeed. 

call   Lincoln  a  all  praise  him.  and  say  that 

.  was  kind,  and  generous  and  magnanimous  and  tactful 

and   sympathetic    and    honest    and    si:  Hi    they    stop   just 

short  of  calling  him  ^reat. 

o  one  hesitates  to  ascribe  greatness  to  Abraham 
ojfl       Ptoplf  «rho  had  known  him  in  the  familiarity  of  his 
daily  life  lived  too  near  him  to  appreciate  his  greatness.     I 

seems  far  greater  to  us  than  he  did  to  most  of  his  coo- 
temporaries;  and  he  will  appear  greater  cars  from  now 
than  he  dON  today.     So,  I  believe,  will  Harding. 

I   will  not  attempt  in  any  dose  and  intimate  fashion  to  say 

•   the  lite  -  J   Warren  G.  Harding  was  like  that  of  Abraham 

'   see  the  two  men  in  the  same  perspect. 

oln   has  become  a   semi  -mythical   character,   almost    super- 

hu::  oodness  and  greatness.     Hut  Harding  had  some 

qualities  not  unlike  those  of  In. 

W.i  |  was  an  honest  man.     No  one  holding  his 

hand  and  looking  into  his  face  could  doubt  that  he  was  sincr 
and   that   1.  He   was  a  kind 

man.  considerate  and  I  and  patient       He  was  a  man  who 

<lhness   and    firmness       He    knew    how    to   stand 
sqi  >ns.    and    he    was    not    ea 

hose  elements  wh,  li   him  a 

patent  1— der — a  practical 

I    vision   of   what    tl  accept   fl 


BY  WILLIAM  E.  BARTON.  D.  D. 

their  representatives  thorough  confidence  and  patience.  In  all 
this  Harding  was  like  Lincoln.  He  was  a  man  of  the  people, 
born  of  the  common  stuff  of  American  manhood,  and  elevated 
by  the  free  choice  of  the  people  to  be  their  chief  representative. 
In  all  these  respects  his  greatness  was  like  that  of  Lincoln. 
Harding  was  not  tested  in  time  of  war,  but  he  had  the  severe 
testing  of  "the  cruel  wars  of  peace",  and,  like  Lincoln  he  did  not 
betray  the  confidence  of  the  people. 

I  am  aware  that  Harding  has  been  severely  blamed  because 
he  favored  the  World  Court  and  did  not  favor  the  League  of 
Nations.  Even  so  William  Lloyd  Garrison  blamed  Abraham 
Lincoln,  and  Wendell  Phillips  called  him  "the  slave-hound  of 
Illinois"  and  the  extreme  abolitionists  vied  with  the  Copper- 
heads in  their  abuse  of  Lincoln.  But  Lincoln  knew,  and  Har- 
ding knew  how  far  the  people  would  go  and  how  far  Congress 
would  go.  Harding  knew  that  neither  the  Senate  nor  the  peo- 
ple desired  that  America  should  enter  the  League  of  Nations  as 
at  present  constituted.  Lloyd  George,  in  a  speech  delivered 
two  weeks  ago,  on  July  25,  cried  out  that  there  will  never  be  a 
League  of  Nations  until  it  is  so  reconstituted  as  to  include  Rus- 
sia and  Germany  and  to  be  acceptable  to  the  United  States. 
Harding  knew  this.  It  was  only  Harding's  earnestness  that 
made  the  World  Court  an  issue;  the  League,  on  its  present 
basis,  is  not  an  issue  in  America.    Harding  knew  it. 

I  have  reason  to  believe,  and  do  believe,  that  Mr.  Harding 
has  been  thoroughly  loyal  to  his  own  conscience,  and  loyal  to 
what  he  believed  the  best  interests  of  America  and  the  world, 
in  the  stand  he  has  taken  in  international  relationships.  And 
I  believe  that  the  future  will  declare  he  has  been  right.  Wood- 
row  Wilson  went  to  Versailles  with  high  and  noble  ideals.  I 
have  no  words  save  those  of  praise  for  Wilson.  He  carried  with 
him  the  Fourteen  Points  on  which  already  the  war  had  ended. 
The  Council  at  Versailles  undertook  to  arrange  a  treaty  of 
peace  on  the  basis  of  Wilson's  Fourteen  Points,  and  if  the 
Fourteen  Points  had  had  the  small  pox,  the  treaty  would  have 
been  immune.  The  Fourteen  Points  became  a  music-hall  joke 
in  Paris  before  Woodrow  Wilson  was  half  through.  No  nation 
that  consented  to  the  Armistice  on  the  basis  of  the  Fourteen 

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••:        ING 

sponsible  *1. 
tatilct  nee  *ny  ab 

4y  thai  id  well  to  take  warrant 

:rap 
of    I  in   intrigue   and   hatred   and   revenge.      America  can 

science ;  we  do 
any  nation'i  bat 

'on  any  negative  attitude 
I   think  -nanently  a*  the  man  H 

krj  •  Nation*  any  more   than   it 

wiL  A'oodrov. 

kept   m  Id  will  remember  Wa 

Harding  a*  thr  o -operation  of 

Charle  and   accomplished    the    result 

the  Washington  C  began  in  tuch 

a  dramatic  fashion  an  so  tan  do  not  half  ap; 

It  .  a  war  )  a  and  Japan,  and  laid  the 

basis  of  a  r  HI       It  termin. 

the  Anglo-Japane*  moat  inimical  at  it  was  to  the  in- 

-stt  of  America,  and  gave  us  the  oppoii 
alliancr  -  *  or  e»- 

tra: 

me  hat  the 

ma-  -1  not  I  ..rid  in  t :  iing 

of  \  and  that   the   process  thoi  nrncdia' 

of  i  ^  that  were  a  menace  to  I  .d't 

pea  i'i   paramount 

the  Pacific,  .im\  hr  to  a  navy  at  great  at  that 

of  any  seven  teas  but  I  •>!  the  oceans  in  the  cut- 

.    of  thr    I  rt   logic  of   the 

which  tays  that  two  tune  B  thfOt 

All  thii    I!..  au- 

skill,  tact  and 
and  it  been  done      On  the  day 

g,  tpeaking  at  the 
grave  of  the  unknown  so!  what  no  Prett- 

ied  that    mighty   •' 


BY  WILLIAM  E.  BARTON.  D.  D. 

which  he  led  in  audible  tones,  ringing  clear  amid  the  hushed 
voices  of  thousands  who  heard  and  joined  him. 

Warren  G.  Harding  was  a  quiet,  unostentatious  Christian. 
When  Abraham  Lincoln  left  Springfield  to  be  inaugurated 
President,  he  told  his  old  neighbors  that  he  was  going  to  under- 
take a  responsibility  heavier  than  that  of  Washington,  and  he 
could  not  hope  to  succeed  without  the  help  of  that  God  on 
whom  Washington  relied.  He  asked  his  old  neighbors  to  pray 
for  him.  So  Harding,  as  he  left  Marion  under  like  circum- 
stances, said  to  his  old  neighbors,  "I  want  to  go  to  Washington 
with  your  prayers  as  well  as  your  friendship.  Though  I  may 
not  always  be  the  ideal,  I  want  you  to  know  that  in  my  heart  is 
a  reverence  for  Almighty  God.  I  believe  that  He  has  his  own 
part  in  directing  the  destinies  of  this  free  people." 

It  is  fortunate,  yea,  providential,  in  this  hour,  that  America 
has  as  her  leader  a  man  like  Calvin  Coolidge.  Death  has  sel- 
dom given  us  a  good  President.  A  Vice-President,  stepping 
into  the  place  of  the  Chief  Magistrate,  has  a  most  difficult  place 
to  fill.  But  Calvin  Coolidge  gives  us  good  reason  to  hope  and 
expect  that  he  will  worthily  perform  the  work  that  has  come 
to  him  by  the  call  of  Providence.  How  worthily  he  has  begun ! 
Who  can  fail  to  admire  the  quiet  dignity  of  his  taking  the  oath, 
administered  in  the  old  farm-house,  by  the  President's  father! 
Thus  far  he  has  made  no  mistakes.  His  words  have  been  wise, 
dignified,  tactful,  strong;  and  Mrs.  Coolidge  has  shown  herself 
a  lady  capable  of  sustaining  the  high  dignity  and  moral  value  of 
her  position. 

Well  may  the  Old  Bay  State  rejoice  with  solemn  pride  that 
one  of  her  sons  comes  worthily,  even  through  such  grief,  to  the 
chair  of  John  Adams  and  John  Quincy  Adams.  Again  is  Mass- 
achusetts the  mother  of  Presidents.  Let  her  honor  Calvin 
Coolidge,  refrain  from  cheap  and  trivial  criticism  of  his  poli- 
cies, and  set  him  on  high  in  her  heart  as  a  man  of  character  and 
conscience  and  Christian  faith.  Calvin  Coolidge  wrote  a  book 
whose  title  was,  "Have  Faith  in  Massachusetts".  Let  Massa- 
chusetts and  the  nation  have  faith  in  Calvin  Coolidge. 

Our  thoughts  turn  in  these  closing  moments  to  the  little  city 
in  Ohio  where  a  brave  and  heart-broken  woman  mourns  her 

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N 

dead,  ind  n  bland  amid  a  f|  .£  from  the 

ou:  God  give  her  com- 

I  in  thr  r  left  t:  -   House  a  month  ago.  not 

ting  that  it   wii  to  be  her   home   fur    six   more  year*,  now 

the  mutt   suddenly   chan>  ..hole   hie  plan,  and   retut 

•ier  lonely  remaining  yean  near  the  g:  .im  the 

th   the   heartfelt   sym- 
id  the  f  a  united  peo; 

It  is  in.  ;et  a  certain  aimilanty  in  the  funerals 

an  I  Harding  in  theii  side  character.     When 

i  wai  about  to  go  eait  for  hu  inaugural,  five  State  Leg- 
islatures then  in  sessi  bin  to  visit  them  on  his  way 
Washington     He  did  mm  therefore  .,  the 
A  Indiana.  Ohio.  New  York.  N               sey  and 
and  stc  ,                                                                    lay  not 
•ant  from  the  I                           he  must  travel  in 
capitols      When   hi               I   was  determined  that 
turn  to                                                              :ie  same 
route        Never     had     there     been     another     funeral     just     like 
that,   ami    the    funeral    of                                 -ding    is    not    wholly    a 
parallel       Ye:    the  same   train  on                                |   was  proi. 

I  rancisco  is  that  which  brought  him  back,  its  gar- 
lands char.  lems  of   mourning.      That    funeral   train 
a  length  such  as  no  similar  funeral  can  equal,  has 
lent't  body   from   coast   to  coast,  and   found 
1*1  heart  of  sorrow  and  loyalty  eve:  j  where  the  same. 
While    Lincoln's  body   was  on   its   w.  r   tomb.    Henry 
W.v                MH  delivered  a                    whuh  is  recognized  as  one  of 
the  most  eloquent   funeral  orations  ever    del:.  n   America 
.id: 
"And  now  t:                                                              ;>hal  ma  f;ht- 
•han  wr.'                         The  nat.                 s  up  at  his 
I   ities  and  States  are  his  pall  bearers,  and  the  cannon 
beat  the  hours  with  solemn  progression.     Dead.  dead.  dead,  he 
ifctthl     Is  Washington  dead?     Is  Hampden  dead1     Is 
David  dead?     Is  ar                                   was  ftl                dead? 

<~ars  ago.  oh.    Ilhn-  •  ried 

man.  and   from  among   the  pe    ■  >  rn  him  to  you.  a 

[•] 


BY  WILLIAM  E.  BARTON.  D.  D. 

mighty  conqueror.  Not  thine  any  more,  but  the  nation's;  not 
ours  but  the  world's.  Give  him  place,  oh,  ye  prairies!  In  the 
midst  of  the  continent  his  dust  shall  rest,  a  sacred  treasure  to 
myriads  who  shall  pilgrim  to  that  shrine  to  kindle  anew  their 
zeal  and  patriotism." 

So  we,  this  day,  salute  Ohio,  and  say  to  her : 

"Two  years  ago,  oh,  mother  of  Presidents,  we  received  from 
you  a  man  but  little  known  to  us  and  the  world,  and  we  laid 
upon  him  the  heavy  burdens  of  national  leadership.  Today  we 
give  him  back  to  your  keeping.  Lay  his  sacred  dust  in  the  same 
soil  that  enshrines  your  Garfield  and  McKinley.  To  you  we 
yield  him,  for  he  is  yours;  but  he  is  not  yours  alone.  His  in- 
tegrity, his  loyalty,  his  honor  and  his  Christian  faith  have  given 
his  name  a  place  immortal  among  the  rulers  of  mankind." 

A  nation  must  incarnate  her  own  ideals  in  the  lives  of  her 
great  men.  Except  as  she  does  this,  her  constitution  and  her 
statutes  and  her  international  conventions  are  sounding  brass 
and  a  tinkling  cymbal.  America  will  be  free  and  her  influence 
will  be  a  blessing  among  nations,  and  her  flag  will  float  with 
high  and  undimmed  luster,  so  long  as  she  produces  out  of  the 
stuff  of  her  common  manhood  men  like  Lincoln,  Harding  and 
Coolidge. 

The  sun  is  sinking,  and  this  day  nears  its  close,  both  here 
and  in  Marion.  The  doors  of  the  tomb  are  about  to  close  upon 
all  that  is  mortal  of  a  brave,  good  man ;  and  we  shall  presently 
close  this  service.  The  buglers  will  sound  their  last  salute. 
The  veterans  of  the  World  War  will  fire  their  farewell  shots, 
and  we  shall  depart  from  this  place  and  face  again  with  solemn 
and  confident  hearts  our  duties  as  individuals  and  citizens. 

Let  the  bugles  sound  "Taps"  for  the  time  has  come  to  bid 
farewell  to  all  that  is  mortal  of  Warren  G.  Harding.  Let  the 
minute-guns,  with  their  dull,  heavy  roar,  carry  from  town 
to  town  the  message  of  our  sorrow.  But  America's  sky  is 
brighter  in  the  west  where  Harding's  sun  went  down,  and  its 
glow  is  the  prophecy  of  a  glorious  and  abiding  dawn. 


[9] 


AN  ADDRESS 

Delivered  in  the  Town  Hall,  Foxborough,  Mass.,  April  19,  1865, 

simultaneously  with  the  funeral  of  President  Lincoln. 

By  Rev.  Isaac  Smith,  A.  M. 

FELLOW  CITIZENS :  We  assemble  to-day  under  circum- 
stances of  unparalleled  solemnity.  Never,  from  the  land- 
ing of  the  Mayflower,  to  the  fourth  anniversary  of  the  firing  on 
Fort  Sumter;  from  the  nineteenth  of  April,  when  the  great 
struggle  commenced  at  Lexington  and  Concord,  to  the  nine- 
teenth of  April  that  witnesses  the  funeral  rites  of  President 
Lincoln,  has  anything  occurred  so  calculated  to  thrill  the  nat- 
ional heart,  as  the  closing  scene  in  the  great  drama  last  week. 
We  may  well  doubt  if  the  annals  of  the  world  can  furnish  aught 
that  surpasses  it.  The  assassination  of  Caesar  in  the  senate 
house;  of  William,  Prince  of  Orange,  by  Gerard;  the  fate  of 
Richard  2d,  and  of  Edward  5th;  the  Gunpowder  Plot;  and  the 
long  list  of  dark  deeds  in  ancient  and  mediaeval  ages,  har- 
monized with  the  spirit  of  those  times,  the  deep  darkness  and 
degradation  of  the  people.  But  in  the  nineteenth  century,  in 
enlightened  America,  in  the  land  of  Bibles,  of  sanctuaries,  and 
sabbath  schools;  a  land  imbued  with  puritanic  influences,  and 
so  near  the  ashes  of  a  Washington,  and  when  the  universal 
shout  of  victory  had  scarcely  died  away, —  it  is  then  that  death, 
and  such  a  death,  falls  with  startling  effect,  with  stunning 
power.    The  poet  Young  has  said, — 

"Death  loves  a  shining  mark,  a  signal  blow; 

A  blow,  which  while  it  executes,  alarms, 

And  startles  thousands  by  a  single  fall." 

Here  the  assassin  threw  death  into  the  centre,  and  rolled  its 
dark  waves  over  sympathizing  millions.  Earth  has  no  fiend  of 
darker  hue.  Hell  has  no  fury  with  more  malignant  hate.  How 
deplorable  the  thought,  that  man,  under  the  combined  power  of 
all  vile  influences,  should  ever  sink  so  low!     Alas,  that  we  are 

[11] 

UBHi 

UNIVERSITY  0?  IKllKtitt 


THE    LINCOLN    ADDRESS 

include  -neric    name;    that    wc 

can   neither  tbc   tped  .■.  .pe    from   the    race   the 

••  as  as  truly 
(1  the  act  with  which  the  lan- 
guage was  associated.      N  t   falls   En   this   instance.      No 

,-d.      No  good  to  others  could  result. 

The  empli •  ;.  the  wrr-  |    .is  blindly  in  this,  as  they 

st    then    own    cherished    schemes    throughout.      The 

:le  was  t  their  truest  friend.     One  baser  than 

Judas,  more  cruel  than  Herod,  more  bloody  than  the  hounds  of 

the  South,  b  aity  Lo  blood. 

.   like   individu.  ft   their   reverses   and   triumphs. 

Ours,  in   its  Infant  entered  some  of  the  most   unnat 

.vcrful  of  enemies.  in  individu.il  experiences,  we 

were  developed  and  mati:  I  t^onistic   influences.      Our 

I  war.  however,  was  the  most  appalling,  and  threatened  to 
ve  the  n  The  North  still  had  import. 

van*  I  h  he  foundation  of  society  had  been  lai 

D  faith  And  prayer.  The  Puritans  were  influenced  by  re- 
iderations,  when  they  crossed  the  ocean,  and  erect- 
ed the  church,  the  schoolhouse.  and  the  college,  in  these  wes:- 
wilds.  Not  so  with  the  South.  They  belonged  to  a  stratum  in 
society.  Descendants  of  cavaliers,  devotees  of  w- 
ion.  "lovers  of  pleasure  more  than  lovers  of  God."  they  verged 
to  the  I  extreme,  locally,  morally,  and  in  every  point  of 

view.     The  progeny  of  both  were  true  to  the  instincts,  the  hab- 
and    sentiments   of    their    sires.       The    one    engaged    in    the 
Its,  the  useful  arts  of  industry;  the  Othei 
and   transmitted   the   blandishments  of   artificial   life,    the   cruel 
code  of  revenge,  and  the  arbitrament  of  war        The  former  glor- 
:n  their  OWD  honorable  toflj  the  latter  in  extorting  it.  unre- 
quited,  fro:  Thfl   God   U)   whose  ears  the 
groans  of  oppressed  Israel  as  1  who  judged  between 
them    and    Phaiaoh.    has    I                 'mded    such    di  is       In 
one    instan                         r    had    a    work    of    deliveram  ■ 
he    rais^                V      rS  :    in    the    other.    Abr.tham     Lincoln 
sufD              .vas    more    extensive    and                     in    the    latter    in- 
stance,   and    a    similar              -    r    In    it    was    equally    consis' 

I  »21 


BY  REV.  ISAAC  SMITH 

Mr.  Lincoln  has,  with  propriety,  been  regarded  as  the  special 
gift  of  God  for  an  important  emergency.  And  it  may  well 
be  doubted  whether  any  other  man  could  have  filled  his 
place  so  usefully  to  the  people.  He  rose  from  obsurity. 
He  had  felt  the  pressure  of  poverty.  His  early  culture  was 
very  limited  and  imperfect.  He  was  thus  thrown  upon 
his  own  resources.  Schooled  in  adversity,  he  was  convers- 
ant with  it.  No  man  could  better  enter  into  the  feelings 
of  the  masses.  He  used  the  most  unadorned  language,  whether 
in  state  papers,  public  speeches,  or  private  conversation;  and 
if  urged,  in  any  instance,  to  adopt  a  more  classic  diction,  his 
reply  was,  "The  people  will  understand  it."  He  came  into 
power  at  a  most  critical  juncture.  No  president,  in  any  pre- 
vious war,  had  equal  difficulties  to  meet.  Washington,  to  whom 
we  properly  attribute  so  much,  had  a  less  difficult  task.  He 
seems  to  have  commenced  with  a  determination  not  to  sacrifice 
life  needlessly,  and  not  to  suffer  the  national  honor  to  be  in 
any  way  impaired.  Honest  in  his  own  nature  and  designs,  he 
had  some  confidence  in  the  honesty  of  his  foes.  He  therefore 
hoped  to  effect  something  by  conciliation.  He  had  much  to 
learn,  as  all  others  had.  But  he  was  quick  to  discern.  He  read- 
ily saw  the  practical  working  of  his  plans,  and  advanced  with 
a  firm  and  even  course.  If  he  had  gone  faster  or  farther,  he 
would  have  been  compelled  to  proceed  alone.  If  he  had  done 
less,  he  would,  in  reality,  have  effected  nothing.  He  had  mani- 
fested more  determination,  there  might  have  been  a  division  at 
the  North.  As  it  was,  he  carried  the  millions  with  him,  and 
with  a  remarkable  unanimity. 

His  great  proclamation  of  freedom  was  issued  at  a  time  when 
the  nation  was  convinced  of  its  propriety,  and  when  the  civi- 
lized world  must  see  the  issues,  with  no  alternative  but  to  just- 
ify the  North,  or  approve  of  slavery. 

Our  President  was  genial  in  his  nature,  and  kind  in  his  inter- 
course with  all.  His  fondness  for  story-telling  relieved  many 
an  anxious  thought,  and  made  the  cares  of  state  rest  more 
easily  upon  him.  And  sometimes  perhaps  his  anecdotes  served 
to  conceal  the  conflicting  emotions  that  preyed  upon  him. 

His  integrity  of  heart,  and  honesty  of  purpose  were  prover- 

[I3J 


THK   LINCOLN    ADDRESS 

bial.     Wc  may  well  hope  th.it   his  soul  was  .  i  the  Great 

Supreme  by  I  hvi  When  ftl  Western 

dm  the  respootibilit 

And   he  seems  I  felt   a   reliance  upon  a 

bub:  and  over  ratio  in  all  the  duties  of  his 

:on.    nor    did    he    make    use    of    his    power    for 
the  ment  or  humiliation  of  his  opponents.     While  deter- 

mined to  sustain  the  dignity  of  the   government,   he   leaned  to 
the  side  of   me  have   thought   he   exercised   the   par- 

ing   power   too   freely,    and    that    he   did    not    deal    with   the 
ene  itv        These.  ai^\  many  other  things, 

k    the    goodness    of    his    heait.    while    they    argue    nothing 
against  the  soundness  of  his  judgement. 

He   .  vith  reference  to  other  nations.     When  he 

saw  them  take-  of  our  difficulties,  and  was  urged  to 

<ry  me.  he  would   reply.  "One   thing   at   a  tir: 

He   had   recently.   I  amation,  asserted  our  rights  in   for- 

ports.  conscious  that  we  were  then  in  a  condition  to  defend 
them. 

He  was  re-elected  by  a  very  large  majority.  No  one  had  en- 
joyed that  distinguished  mark  of  popular  favor  for  more  than 
a  quarter  of  a  century.  It  was  a  triumphal  approval  of  his 
policy  and  of  his  deeds.  It  was  an  emphatic  expression  of  grat- 
itude and  confidence.  And  no  one  who  voted  for  him  will  now 
regret  his  act. 

He  entered  on  his  second  term  under  flattering  auspices. 
The  confederacy  was  waning,  and  tottering  to  its  fall.  The  na- 
tion had  respondc  :  ;  tly  to  his  calls.  The  hearts  of  the 
were  with  him.  The  enemy  were  in  evident  alarm. 
With  the  recapture  of  all  the  nt  forts,  of  almost  all  the 
cities  on  the  Atlantic  coast,  the  occupation  oi  Richmond,  and 
the  capitulation  of  the  !  the  insir  our 
honored  President  had  i  point  from  which  he  could 
calmly  sur\                                                           .th   Ippi 

His  first  pro*  n  had  been   read  in   rr 

bar-rooms,    "amid    roars    of    lau.  hut    the    laugh    was 

change*1.  I   had   no  disposition    to  exult   over  a 

iust  have  felt  I  nd  satisfaction  in  view  of 

(  H  1 


BY  REV.  ISAAC  SMITH 

his  indisputable  success.  The  arch  traitor,  whose  fulminations 
had  been  so  audacious  and  defiant,  had  fled  for  his  life,  with 
"none  so  poor  to  do  him  reverence."  Henceforth  he  will  wan- 
der, like  his  great  archetype,  "to  and  fro  in  the  earth,"  till  dy- 
ing he  will  leave 

"A  villain's  name  to  other  times, 

Linked  to  no  virtue  but  a  thousand  crimes." 

Before  God  he  is  chargeable  with  the  blood  of  tens  of  thou- 
sands, and  with  the  life-long  wretchedness  of  thrice  that  num- 
ber more.  Single  crimes  affect  us ;  but  multitudes  confound,  and 
render  us  insensible  to  their  enormity.  Booth  has,  as  is  sup- 
posed, murdered  one;  Davis,  with  certainty,  legions.  And  the 
latter  was  more  truly  the  murderer  of  Lincoln  than  the  direct 
assassin  was.  Nay,  more ;  he  has  aimed  his  dagger  at  a  Nation's 
heart,  and  would  have  drawn  its  life-blood.  If,  since  the  mur- 
derer of  Abel,  one  ever  deserved  a  murderer's  or  a  tyrant's  fate, 
it  is  Jefferson  Davis.  He  may  escape  it,  but  if  he  has  the  least 
relic  of  conscience  left,  it  will  "lash  him  naked  round  the 
world,"  a  fugitive  and  a  vagabond,  till  he  returns  to  the  earth  ; 
and  even  that,  like  Jonah's  receptacle,  might  well  spew  him  out. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  last  week,  we  were  permitted  to 
rejoice  over  the  success  of  our  arms.  Never  was  the  victors'  joy 
more  ecstatic,  or  the  cause  for  it  more  clear.  It  was  natural 
then  to  rally  around  the  President,  as  we  had  in  the  severity  of 
the  conflict.  Beloved  and  confided  in  before,  he  then  appeared 
to  many  almost  superhuman.  They  seemed  to  cherish  the  feel- 
ing, if  they  did  not  use  the  language  of  Herod's  adorers,  "It  is 
the  voice  of  a  god,  and  not  of  a  man."  Then  caution  slumbered, 
and  the  divine  protection  was  withheld.  Then  the  free  act  of 
the  cowardly  wretch  terminated  his  usefulness  and  his  life.  The 
dark  deed  is  done.  Its  circumstances  are  all  known.  No  one 
can  wish  to  dwell  upon  them.  The  Capital  is  robed  in  the  drap- 
ery of  death.  A  nation  is  clothed  in  sack  cloth.  Millions  sin- 
cerely mourn.  One  of  the  most  remarkable  men  in  the  world 
is  no  more.  A  President,  second  only  to  Washington,  is  to- 
day yielded  to  sepulture,  the  acknowledged  kindred  of  earth 
and  worms. 

No  other  man  could  have  filled  his  place  during  his  first  term. 

[15] 


TH  N     OLM    ADDK 

We    will   devoutly   acknowledge   the   goodness   of    God   in    | 

|fa  the  the  struggle.      His  death. 

under  ft]  tances.  would  have  her  ;onal  calan 

Id  he   I  ssed  by  a   gradual  and   gentle  transr 

seen  a  :er's 

will,  it  :  :elief.     Could  he  h.tve  s  a  word  of 

counsel,  or  a  dying  ble  oold  we  have  known  the  con- 

tl  or  triumphs  of  hi  it  would  have  see  re  easy 

to  acquiesce  in  his  removal.     Hut  it  is  all  over  with  him.     'This 

A     I  yet  he  still  lives.     And  as  mona: 
often  "rule  from  their  sccptir  .  his  principles 

and  deeds,  will  have  a  controlling  influence  in  the  land  for  ages 
to  come.     'The  blessing  o:  pon 

The   millions   set    free   by   his   agency   will   transmit   his 
yet    unborn.      And    long    will    it    be.    ere 
they  speak  his  name,  or  think  of  him.  without  a  tear.     It  has 
been  said  by  another.  "If  his  name  was  written  on  every  star. 
and  eml  d  in  every  page  o:  uld 

not  be  overwrought."  But  the  good  man  sleeps  in  death.  The 
great  man  rests  beneath  his  honors,  like  the  warrior  "with 
martial  cloak  around  him."  The  statesman  is  enshrined  with 
•  his  feet.  The  friend  of  the  colored  race  is  pal- 
lid and  mute  amid  the  millions  whose  chains  have  fallen,  and 
whose  hearts  are  too  full  for  utterance.  The  ruler,  of  a  sim- 
ple yet  lofty,  peerless  grandeur,  leaves  his  name  the  heritage  of 
man,  and  the  world  to  read  his  worth  "in  a  nation's  tears."  As 
an  neither  adorn  the  rose  nor  paint   th<  w   in  more 

.itiful   hues,   so   Ian  .    the    pencil    is   impotent,    and 

sculpture  is  Inadequate,  to  the  full  portraiture  of  him  whose 

loss  we  deplore. 

"Ah    had  he  lived  in  tha*  'ay, 

Bf  grave 
Ot    tltjril,u*  m*n  long  passed  away. 

Ihant  and  the  br.. 
The   marble  cenotaph   in 

The  column,  and  \hr 
Would   still   trar  :'utr    time, 

M 
that  record  is  •     •  retl  in  charge  to  "marble  and 

I  16  1 


BY  REV.  ISAAC  SMITH 

ever-during  brass;"  his  is  "one  of  the  few,  immortal  names, 
that  were  not  born  to  die." 

The  counterpart  of  that  murderous  deed  is  also  familiar. 
Three  in  the  service  of  the  government,  and  high  in  the  esteem 
of  the  people  were  subjected  to  a  deadly  assault  at  the  same 
hour  with  the  President.  If  they  survive,  as  now  appears  prob- 
able, it  will  be  no  abatement  of  the  assailant's  guilt.  The  lan- 
guage applied  to  those  actually  slain  in  a  former  conflict  is  not 
inapplicable  here: 

"In  pride,  in  all  the  pride  of  woe, 
We  tell  of  them,  the  men  laid  low, 
Who  for  their  country  bled." 

To  the  Secretary  of  State  must  be  attributed  much  of  our 
success.  Able  in  counsel,  firm  in  purpose  and  indefatigable  in 
effort,  he  has  labored  harmoniously  with  the  President,  com- 
manding respect  from  the  people  at  home,  and  the  nations  of 
the  earth.  His  was  a  life  too  valuable  to  the  country,  not  to 
evoke  the  shafts  of  the  rebellion.  They  may  each  present  a  liv- 
ing proof,  concurring  with  the  ashes  of  the  immortal  slain,  to 
evince  the  spirit  of  the  leaders  and  minions  of  the  rebellion.  But 
the  "Star-Spangled  Banner"  still  waves.  It  is  lowered  rever- 
ently to-day,  in  acknowledgement  of  One  above,  but  yielding  to 
none  beneath.  Men  may  die ;  but  our  nation,  with  its  principles 
and  polity,  will  live. 

There  is  some  anxiety  to  know  what  course  will  be  pursued 
by  the  successor  in  office.  I  have  been  acquainted  with  the 
history  and  course  of  Andrew  Johnson,  during  a  period  of  near- 
ly thirty  years.  I  have  felt  intensely  interested  in  his  case,  as 
showing  what  the  unaided  efforts  of  a  poor  and  friendless  youth 
may  accomplish.  I  have  repeatedly  given  the  outlines  of  his 
remarkable  history  in  different  places  in  public.  What  occur- 
red on  the  inauguration  day  affected  me  exceedingly.  It 
shows  that  he  is  human,  and  admonishes  us  not  to  put  confi- 
dence in  princes,  or  place  unbounded  reliance  on  any  arm  of 
flesh.  But,  previous  to  that  unfortunate  occasion,  no  shadow 
has  rested  on  his  fair  fame.  Though  a  Southerner,  he  has  al- 
ways been  true  to  the  Union.  When  the  sanctuary  of  home 
was  invaded  by  those  who  had  been  protected  by  the  govern- 

[17] 


TH  OLN    AI> 

mcnt  equally  with  himself,  when  his  property  was  in  danger, 
when  life  itself  was  imperilled,  he  was  at  true  as  the  needle 
to  the  pole.     Gold  coul  rchasc  him,  nor  the  halter  terrify 

him.     The  'he  trumpet  tongue,  that  would  shake 

the  rpose  of  his  soul,  met  no  response  there      A  Leoni- 

das  in  courage  and  determination,  he  was  more  than  Spartan, 
when  the  hordes  of  the  I  him.     In  my  opinion, 

he  would  D  been  the  man  for  the  country  in  1861  ;  he  is 

probably  the  best  man  it  can  produce  in  1865.  His  resolute,  de- 
termined manner  might  have  complicated  our  difficulties  then; 
he  will  show  no  quarter  to  traitors  now.  It  was  feared  that 
our  worth'.  lent,  though  firm  in  the  struggle,  would  look 

with  what  he  would  intend  as  a  feeling  of  magnanimity  upon  a 
fallen  foe,  and  in  the  goodness  of  his  heart,  propose  such  terms 
at  would  make  treason  look  to  those  in   after  ages  as  a  very 
rill    affair;    that    an    amnesty    might    be    proclaimed,    which 

did  embrace  not   the  deceived   and  deluded   masses  merely. 

the  leaders  also;  that  there  might  be  such  a  restoration  of 
property,  and  reinstatement  in  all  the  privileges  of  citizenship, 
as  v.  cm  but  a  premium  on  rebellion. 

ident  Johnson  will  undoubtedly  insist,  that,  if  there  can- 
not be  complete  "indemnity  for  the  past."  there  shall  be  at 
least  "security  for  the  future."  He  well  knows  what  he.  with 
the  Unionists  of  Tennessee,  has  suffered  He  will  think  of  the 
butchery  of   surrendered   soldier-  Through 

the  wounded  and  dying,  of  the  abuse  of  the  dead,  of  the  trink- 
ets made  from  their  bones,  of  the  tens  of  tho.  tortured  in 
prisons  and  starved  to  death,  of  the  multitudes  still  more  un- 
fortunate, who  linger  out  a  life  of  wretchedness,  of  the  infernal 

•    to   murder   his   predecessor,   of    the    "ch:.  in    the 

cha  :  the  Sc  of  State;  and.  rather  than  concede  or 

aid  say.  in  the  language  of  Dr    Kirk*  "God  of 
battles,   lead    us   Nil      Death   to   slavery   and   tO   traitors' 

:se  in   regard  to  "the  doomed   institution"   may   be   infc: 
from  the  f.  Washington  to  assume  the 

pos  be  was  elr\  the  suffrages  of  the  peo- 

•   with  him  from    Tennessee  its  ratification  of  the 

I  IB] 


BY  REV.  ISAAC  SMITH 

constitutional  amendment  abolishing  slavery,  procured  through 
his  own  exertions. 

We  would  not  encourage  the  spirit  of  revenge.  We  would 
breathe  everywhere,  "Good  will  to  men."  As  ministers  of  the 
gospel,  I  speak  for  one,  and  think  I  may  for  the  others  present, 
— we  have  conscientiously  preached  peace,  and  rejoiced  in  hope 
that  her  "olive-branch"  would  wave  over  the  nations  of  the 
earth,  and  "wreathe  her  chain"  around  the  thousand  millions  in 
harmonious  brotherhood.  But  this  necessity  was  forced  upon 
us.  We  had  no  alternative.  Before  us  was  an  appeal  to  arms,  or 
the  loss  of  all  that  was  dear  to  man,  or  precious  in  the  sight  of 
God.  But  now,  by  the  love  we  bear  to  our  country,  to  our  con- 
temporaries North  and  South,  and  to  unborn  myriads  that  shall 
occupy  this  vast  extent  of  territory;  after  all  this  expenditure 
of  blood  and  treasure,  and  especially  after  what  has  made  this 
day's  solemnities  necessary;  in  the  name  of  humanity,  in  the 
name  of  God,  we  protest  against  "healing  the  hurt  of  the  people 
slightly."  Nor  will  it  be.  All  honor  to  the  man  who  was  the 
gift  of  God  and  the  people's  choice,  and  who  fulfilled  his  high 
mission  as  he  alone  could.  Memory  shall  wreathe  her  mourning 
cypress  around  his  clay-cold  form,  and  keep  ceaseless  vigils 
over  his  honored  dust.  But  while  we  abate  not  our  veneration 
for  him,  let  us  now  repose  a  suitable  confidence  in  his  successor. 
Like  Joshua,  he  takes  up  the  work  where  Moses  left  it.  Nor  let 
us  forget  that  the  Being  who  arranged  things  as  his  ancient 
people  approached  the  land  of  beauty  and  abundance,  still 
maintains  control  over  our  destinies.  Kossuth,  while  in  this 
country,  remarked,  "There  is  a  providence  in  every  fact."  We 
can  see  those  providences  from  the  earliest  history  of  our  coun- 
try, in  all  its  conflicts  with  foreign  powers ;  we  see  them  in  the 
convulsive  throes  through  which  we  have  now  so  far  passed.  In 
this  day  of  our  calamity,  we  should  not  distrust  Him  whose 
paternal  care  has  ever  proved  unfailing.  A  remarkable  patho- 
logical fact  is  stated  by  the  surgeons  attending  on  Mr.  Seward ; 
that  the  wounds  inflicted  on  him,  acting  on  the  principle  of  a 
counter-irritant,  actually  relieved  the  extreme  inflammation  re- 
sulting from  the  fracture  of  his  jaw.  And  thus,  what  the  as- 
sassin intended  for  his  destruction,  so  far  resulted  in  his  good. 

[19] 


IH  OLN    ADDKEB8 

It  illustrates  a  great  principle  w!  :nment 

of  G  ..lb.     Th  |  calami-  the 

''■    '     :~        :     il-::.    *h    ^r    ■■\r:     :.:'..•■..;    r:.c:.  J     CM    :e:.  Itl     it    s;:i>sc:- 

:onal  good. 
r  the  c  st  four  ft  does  not  admit 

of  a  question,  whether  a  muled  in  intelligence  and 

Lei  the  1:  nlv  appear  on  our  na- 

'  and  a 
career  of  j.  s  and  gl  ore  us.  of  which  only  the 

I  at  this  hour,  there  is  no  gov- 

the   broad  v   of   heaven    that    rests   on   a 

firmer   I  ours.      Would    that    our   lamented    President 

me  of  the  remoter  fruits  of  his  anxieties 
'  :    evidences   of    those   stupendous   results 
which  fa  v.     But  "One  sow- 

eth,  and  another  rcapeth."     "Other  men  labored,  and  we  are  en- 
tered into  then  And  in  the  ages  of  the  future,  the 
undeveloped  effects  of  wh.it  has  been  sown  in  !  D  agony 
and  blood,  will                  grand  and  glorioi:                      .11  the  indi- 
>ns  of  the   present.      Millions  on   millions  will   turn   almost 
adoringly    to    these    times,    make    pilgrimages    to   the    grave    to 
which  the  services  of  t                  'int.  and  bless  the  memory  of  him 
who  reposes  there.      And  when,  in   future  days.  "The  light  of 
memory  backward  streams."  or  the  historian   shall  search   for 
the  brightest,  the  purest,  the  most  lllustriousof  names,  tower- 
ing  in   majestic   proportions   above   the   myriads   of   ephemeral 
fame,  he  will  find  in  simple,  unadorned,  yet  colossal  and  unap- 
proachable  grandeur,   the   name   of    Abraham    Lincoln, 
and  fragrant  be  the  laurels  that  encircle  hit  brow       He: 
he    is   enshrined    in    m.                 :«le    renown        Hut    while    art    and 

:ve  immortality  to  his  pure  fame,  we  in- 
trust it  to  neither.    We  will  point  t  leoleum,  to 

ma:  it   in.iv   be,   vet   too  cold  are 

their   utterances.      He  has  entered   the   portals  of  the  national 
Hid  there  his  memory  will  be  ftd  while  the  moon 

shall  wax  and  wane,  and  till  the  hi-  he  stars  shall  fade. 


I  ?o  ! 


S    . 


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